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The governments of Ontario and Quebec are calling on the federal government to increase its share of infrastructure funding, ahead of next week's meeting of the premiers and territorial leaders in Charlottetown.

Meeting comes ahead of all-premiers' conference next week in Charlottetown

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne are meeting Thursday in Montreal before heading to the all-premiers' conference in P.E.I. that starts Tuesday. (The Canadian Press)

Ontario and Quebec are calling on the federal government to increase its share of infrastructure funding to respond to the slower rate of economic recovery and job creation in Eastern Canada.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne met with Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard in Quebec City today ahead of next week's Council of the Federation conference in Charlottetown.

"The federal government's refusal to work with us and partner with us particularly on infrastructure has the possibility of holding Canada's economy back.

"But we can't let that hold us back as premiers," Wynne said.

Couillard said while he welcomed the federal government's 10-year, $53-billion Building Canada Plan, it doesn't go far enough.

He said Quebec and Ontario each spend roughly three per cent of their gross domestic product on infrastructure but that historically it's been five per cent.

"There's room to top up the infrastructure investment," Couillard said.

Wynne reiterated her call for Ottawa to quadruple the amount of federal dollars it directs to infrastructure spending.

Ottawa currently spends about half a per cent of Canada's gross domestic product on infrastructure, and if it were up to Wynne that amount would go up to two per cent of GDP, or about $30 billion a year.